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Old 08-09-2015, 07:32 AM   #1
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Default Spanners (not Model A)

Had to clean out my late Dad's workshop/garage over the past few months due to the sale of the old family home (after almost 80 years of continuous occupation by the family), and came across some interesting spanners.

1. A set of very thin spanners with an unusual diamond shaped hole in the middle of each. Any idea what these may have been for? Dad rode motorbikes - I wonder if they are bike-related? And what's with the hole?

2. A very cool Indian Motor Cycle spanner. Dad never rode American bikes, so I don't know how he came by this. His most interesting (from my perspective) bike was an early '50s British Excelsior.

3. A Ford spanner, presumably from a 1917 T-Model?? Funny thing about this spanner is that the sizes of each end are labelled as "1" and "2", but they both appear to be the same (11/16"). Or has this spanner been doctored in somebody's workshop? Don't know how Dad came by this one either, as our family (like most Australian families prior to the mid-60s) drove British makes. Our family didn't own a car before the mid-50s. Any ideas about this one?

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Old 08-09-2015, 08:12 AM   #2
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I use the thin spanners to hold the axle bearing nuts while tightening the lock nuts on bicycles. The same would apply to motorcycles. A screw and wing nut through the center hole could keep them together in the tool box.

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The T-1917 is a Model T wrench. Every Model T got one (15,000,000+) in one form or another.
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Old 08-09-2015, 06:32 PM   #4
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I have a few WHITWORTH wrenches, a 5/16 WHITWORTH is about this l------------------l BIG!----They came from an OLD Flathead Hillman tool kit. Their cylinder bore was SO SMALL, the connecting rod WOULDN'T come out from the top. I had to use a "BABY HASTINGS" ridge reamer, designed for Briggs & Stratton, etc.
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Notice Indian's motorcycle spelling was "motocycles".
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I would think the Indian Motocycle wrench would be a treasure to the right motercycle person because they have to be very rare.
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Old 08-10-2015, 02:01 AM   #7
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The T-1917 spanner looks like it has been altered. Where the flats merge with the radius at the rear of the slot, there is a step which suggests to me that someone filed or ground the slot wider.
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The T-1917 spanner looks like it has been altered. Where the flats merge with the radius at the rear of the slot, there is a step which suggests to me that someone filed or ground the slot wider.
I'm with you, Dave. And the sides of the slot are no longer parallel. Methinks there's been a bit too much meat taken out of there - too much for what's left to hold its shape under pressure.

I think this and the Indian spanner will become garage curios.
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Here is a similar full set of five Whitworth spanners I picked up at a swap meet. Not sure if they were ever supplied as part of a toolkit with any vehicle. I carry them in my MG which uses Whitworth. Note the original stepped bolt that keeps them together. These were manufactured by W Pope in Australia.
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Betcha' many have "special purpose" wrenches that you "constructed" on the spur of the moment, to get to some "impossible" bolt? Just cut, weld, bend, & and weld on, whatever is HANDY.
Some suppliers sell a 1 3/8" crank pulley wrench, which is a GOOD example of "HEAT & BEND"! If you're PATIENT, you can bend one with a cheep Propane torch. I even bent the FAT end of Minervas' shifter, with one. I'm saving COINS, to get my OXY/ACETALYNE tanks refilled.
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Is your hammer a Whitworth, or a common old METRIC one?? My favorite one is a 48 Oz BALL PEIN, with a slightly charred handle, from a shop fire!!!
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Here is a similar full set of five Whitworth spanners I picked up at a swap meet. Not sure if they were ever supplied as part of a toolkit with any vehicle. I carry them in my MG which uses Whitworth. Note the original stepped bolt that keeps them together. These were manufactured by W Pope in Australia.
So, how much for the stepped bolt??
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Is your hammer a Whitworth, or a common old METRIC one?? My favorite one is a 48 Oz BALL PEIN, with a slightly charred handle, from a shop fire!!!
That's the ultra rare universal type, Whitworth on one end and Metric on the other.
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So, how much for the stepped bolt??
Everything is for sale, just make me an offer over $275. (mates rates apply)
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